What is AgentSheets?

AgentSheets is a revolutionary tool that lets you create your own agent-based games and simulations and publish them on the Web through a user-friendly drag-and-drop interface.

AgentSheets users range from elementary school students to NASA scientists, entire school districts, and large federally funded university projects. Why should you use it? Build simulations to explore complex ideas, communicate ideas to others, or just build games:

 Games: Building games (not just playing them) teaches you Computer Science concepts, logic, and algorithmic thinking. Our Scalable Game Design approach is ideal for balancing motivational and educational concerns of computer education.

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Using a formula language, scientific visualizations, and multimedia, users as young as middle school students can create sophisticated computational science applications and games that include complex Artificial Intelligence algorithms.

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AgentSheets with Ristretto® is an authoring environment that lets you quickly create your own simulations and games and publish them on the Web by exporting them as Java applets at the press of a button -- and without having to learn Java.

It's often been said, 'if you really want to understand something, teach it. ' It seems equally true that one way of accomplishing real understanding is to try to simulate it. You need to know the underlying connections among a variety of forces to make a credible simulation. I have seen students who were less than motivated to complete traditional classroom projects put huge amounts of energy and effort into completing an AgentSheets simulation.